Tuesday, July 28, 2009

This kid is being billed as the “the youngest drug dealer in Berlin.” I’m going out on a limb and citing the story as cultural enrichment, because the chances that this urchin is a “person of German background” are less than 0.1%. If anyone finds evidence to the contrary, let me know, and I’ll change the classification of this post.

While you’re at Bild, check out the “related news” for more enrichment. One of the headlines: “Turkish dad stabbed his own 15-year-old daughter to death in the latest honour killing to shock Germany.”

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When officers approached they found 150 pellets filled with heroin. Each one is sold for between €10 and €15.

A child of 12 carrying over $2,000 worth of hardcore drugs?

Only one person would trust someone that young with so much product. I hope his parents and the entire family is being investigated at proctological levels. It is unimaginable that someone unrelated to the suspect would entrust him with such a small fortune.

The excellent German language website Politically Incorrect notes that the police report avoids giving any details about the ethnic background of the boy, but commenters are saying that due to the details of the case he is more likely to be African than Arab or Turk

I've read up on the PI comments, and do not find it substantiated that he'd be African. The crucial point is that he didn't come from an orphanage (or whatever the exact nature of the institution is), but was handed over to one.

Demographics of Kreuzberg districtOf the approximately 160,000 Muslim foreigners in Berlin, about 73% are of Turkish background, 7% from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 4% are from Lebanon. The total foreign population of Berlin is estimated at 466,518. In addition to these numbers, it is assumed that there are at least 40,000 Muslims in the city who are naturalized German citizens. The size of the Muslim population in Berlin stands at approximately 9% of the city’s total population.

The concentration of Muslims in Berlin, largely Turks, is due to the settlement policies of the former West Germany at the beginning of the immigration wave in the 1960’s. The number of Muslims is especially high in the Kreuzberg sub-district (in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district).